Using this you can check out the AWSM-1234-a-fantastic-feature branch with either

git lucky 1234

or

git lucky fantastic

Git Find

I’m pretty sure there are variants of this out there already, but this just shortcuts grokking through your branch list on your local repo to find a branch with some text

find = "!f() { git branch | grep -i " $1 "; }; f"

If I want to list all branches that contain the text ‘chart’ I can do git find chart and get that list

Personally this scratches an itch for me, I used to use git br | grep -i whatever and then git co, but being able to do it in one is pretty handy, and in quite a few cases, git lucky is all I need if I know something unique about the branch name.